The Backwards Group Build

[Brian da Basher]

Well you could change the name to the "Backwards, Upside-down & Sideways" GB.

Brian da Basher

[Chap]

I'd most definitely be in! Thinking of hacking up a Spitfire for this GB.

~Steve

[Daryl J.]

Perhaps.....as long as I am free from painting the machine in rainbow colors.

Daryl J., just finished the day's surgeries

[GTX]

Well you could change the name to the "Backwards, Upside-down & Sideways" GB

or the "Anyway but the way it was supposed to go..." GB

Regards,

Greg

[ysi_maniac]

Yes I would go.  

[B777LR]

When saying "backwards planes", what comes to my mind is an F-15 with fuselage in opposite direction    

[ysi_maniac]

51-F maybe?

[GTX]

How about the following:

Backwards Do-335;
Puller Kyushu J7W1 Shinden; or
Puller B-36?

Regards,

Greg

[Daryl J.]

Or, pushing the envelope a bit, one could remove the vertical tail off a Starfighter, put rings of teeth inside that large tail pipe and make some deep sea lamprey eel!      



Daryl J., running from men who work in rubber rooms........

[Mossie]

When saying "backwards planes", what comes to my mind is an F-15 with fuselage in opposite direction 

I guess in the simplest way you could turn a conventional aircraft into a canard configuration, or like Greg was suggesting, turn a puller prop in to a pusher (or vice versa for either).  At least parts of the plane are going the opposite way!

[Mossie]

Or, pushing the envelope a bit, one could remove the vertical tail off a Starfighter, put rings of teeth inside that large tail pipe and make some deep sea lamprey eel!      



Daryl J., running from men who work in rubber rooms........

Urrrrhhhh, got the shivers, those things put the willies up me!      

[BlackOps]

This sounds like a fun idea, if there's enough interest count me in.

[Joe C-P]

The USN's early carriers, Saratoga and Lexington in particular, were designed to sail backwards at speed, so that if the after deck was damaged they could land aircraft on the forward deck.

Relevance? I got yer relevance right here!  

Some ships might work if you reverse the superstructure.


The Merkava tank has its engine forward, and the original VW Beetle had its engine in the back. A friend of one of my high-school teachers reversed car's transmission and drove his car "backwards". What would other vehicles look like turned around?


JoeP, always sticking his nose in to ramble on about floaty-boaties

[GTX]

Well there was/is the Spähpanzer Luchs - This German 8x8 amphibious reconnaissance armoured fighting vehicle (Spähpanzer) has been in service since 1975 by the West German and later German armies, who used a total of 408 in their armoured reconnaissance battalions. As a special feature the vehicle is equipped with a special rear-facing driver with his own driving position.





Regards,

Greg

[Radish]

NO WILLIES, PLEASE!!!

Anyway, wasn't there a back to front Hurricane?